The Little Big Town Girl Crush Controversy

March 30, 2015 | Posted in LGBT THEMES, MUSIC | By

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The title is misleading as it isn’t really a song about a crush, but a song about envy and fantasizing about being in another body. The lyrics are set to quite a gentle melody.

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Radio Play Review – The Saint – The Connelly Silver Mine

March 30, 2015 | Posted in AUTHORS, BOOKS, CULT TV, TELEVISION | By

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Though certainly best remembered for Roger Moore’s long running Pre-James Bond series, and the sequel (The Return Of The Saint) starring Ian Ogilvy, as well as a dire big budget movie starring Val Kilmer, The Saint was also extensively played on radio, most popularly, by Vincent Price between 1947 and 1951.

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Drama Review – Sophocles – Antigone

March 29, 2015 | Posted in BOOKS | By

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Creon is all set to execute her for defying his laws, even when his own son, Haemon, declares her case just and threatens suicide if she is to die.

Antigone is sent away to be sealed in a tomb, where she will slowly starve to death.

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Diary Thursday 26th March 2015

March 29, 2015 | Posted in AUTHOR BLOGS, AUTHORS, BOOKS, CONVENTIONS, FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION | By

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I spent the remaining afternoon and early evening in the public library, reading through plays, including Antigone, and D H Lawrence’s The Widowing Of Mrs Holroyd (to each be reviewed on these pages). I am always happy to pass time reading good quality literature.

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Diary Friday 27th March 2015

March 29, 2015 | Posted in AUTHOR BLOGS, MUSIC, NON-FICTION, ORCHESTRAL MUSIC | By

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I got my welfare officers to release my five year work history, except it stops a few months short of the date the employers need covering. They now need a deeper record of my work history and I have had to request that too, though it could take weeks to send it to me.

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Drama Review – D H Lawrence – The Widowing Of Mrs Holroyd

March 29, 2015 | Posted in AUTHORS | By

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It is a story of a tragedy in a Midlands mining community. Mrs Holroyd’s husband is a coal-miner, a brute and a womaniser. His own children report that he has been seen again dancing with women of loose morals at a local inn instead of coming home. Act one closes when he even brings two of the dancing girls home, right in front of Mrs Holroyd, who desperately struggles to get them to leave.

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Escapism V Realism – Introducing Arthur Chappell

March 29, 2015 | Posted in AUTHORS, FANTASY, HORROR, NON-FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION | By

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What if my dad had lived? What if I had not joined the cult when a pretty girl invited me? Would I now be a writer? Would I have written Wendigo Water? Would you be reading this?

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H G Wells And Orson Welles Meeting in 1940

March 26, 2015 | Posted in AUTHORS, BOOKS, CLASSICS, HISTORICAL, HORROR, MOVIES, NON-FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION | By

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H G Wells, who was travelling in the United States on a lecture tour, and safely away from the Luftwaffe bombing in Europe and London, expressed great amusement at the similarity of the names, Wells & Welles. He jokingly advises Orson Welles to drop the unnecessary extra e.

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Radio Play Review – The War Of The Worlds

March 26, 2015 | Posted in AUTHORS, HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION | By

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The panic, which would be greatly exaggerated in the weeks following the broadcast, could only happen during the more realistic fake live news reports portion of the play, but even there, events move far too quickly to be credible.

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Theatre Review – Aristophanes – Birds

March 25, 2015 | Posted in AUTHORS, CLASSICS, COMEDY, FANTASY, HISTORICAL | By

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Theatre Review – Aristophanes – Birds   Spoiler alerts – c.5 BC   Greek comedy is a medium I usually find mildly amusing, raunchy and philosophical, but not particularly funny. Even other works by Aristophanes, such as Lysistrata, in which

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